T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.”
Source: Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
“The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.”
“The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.”
“The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.”
“The jury’s still out on your level of intellect. After all, you signed up with Evil Incorporated in the first place.”
Source: Scrying for Summer
“The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.”
“The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.”
“The jusitce is blind. Turn the surveillance cameras off!”
Source: The New Land
“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”
“The just live by Faith and not by random luck.”
Source: Faith Secrets: Learn How to Please God With Your Faith
“The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.”
“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.”
Source: Justice
“The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.”
“The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.”
“The just Witness is the Beloved‘s Eye. (p. 292)”
Source: The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
“The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.”
“The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.”
“The Justice Dept. is the new F.E.M.A.”
“The justice I have received, I shall give back.”
Source: The glass cell
“The justice of a war basically refers to the question whether there is a right to attack in the first place. Justice in a war is concerned with whether the fighting happens in accordance with the international laws of war.”
“The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.”
“The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.”
“The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity.”
Source: The United States Children's Bureau, 1912-1972
“The justice system is corrupted and not reliable. It is exploited for hate, revenge with lies, deceit. It is method, pattern from the knowledgeable guilty against the unprotected innocents. Do not consider any claim or conviction as valid.”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.”
“The justice system is now just a system.”
“The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The justice will fail at the beginning but the outcome will be success, and the injustice will be successful at the beginning at the end will fail.”
“The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.”
“The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.”
“The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.”
Source: Aims of Education
“The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse couldn’t really be happy, either), and he or she would find real happiness elsewhere. The children had only known an unhappy marriage. Now they would learn what happy parents are like, and they would become happier, and able to create happy marriages themselves. But actually all this is false and self-serving. The only person whose happiness is increased is the departing spouse. There are no moral grounds for leaving a marriage. You are breaking your vow and causing pain to others. It is selfish, cruel, and dishonorable. How could he have lived with that?”
Source: Leaving
“The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.”
“The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.”
“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”
“The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.”
Source: The Phantom Public
“The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.”
“The juvenile adage Never kiss and tell had a sound moral instinct behind it.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.”
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!”
“The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.”
“The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.”
“The K-T impact had no evident long-lasting effect on the redwoods. It's possible that, after the impact, the redwoods sprouted up from the remains of their root systems, rising up in fairy rings in a ruined world ...”
“The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most of my designs. I know that my most successful efforts are the simplest. I always find myself trying to subtract detail from design concepts in an attempt to distill the idea down to the most basic communication tool.”
“THE KAA
I imagined his memory was playing tricks on him, the way that dreams are usually a product of the mental state in which we are when we are having them.”
Source: AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
“THE KAA
It was the way he spoke about it, as if it were a dream.”
Source: AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
“THE KAA
The mysteries of the mind and its illusions are not always apparent enough to be recognized and described.”
Source: AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
“THE KAA
The sky darkened and rain was falling in sheets. It was a dark, foreboding rain. A storm from the Abyss.”
Source: AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
“The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"”